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• Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

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  Men, Action, Reason

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• Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.

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  Bible, Lying, Scripture

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• You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.

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  Moving, Wish, May

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• Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operations are understandable to men.

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  Nature, Men, Law

  Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, 1615.

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• Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.

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  Giving, Age, Firsts

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• In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads.

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  Running, Men, Long

  "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems". Book by Galileo Galilei (p. 322), 1632.

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• See now the power of truth.

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  Galileo Galilei (1914). “Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences”, p.164, Courier Corporation

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• Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

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  Dare, Knows, Known

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• If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.

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  Nature, Dark, Moon

  Galileo Galilei, Andrea Frova, Mariapiera Marenzana (2006). “Thus Spoke Galileo: The Great Scientist's Ideas and Their Relevance to the Present Day”, p.201, Oxford University Press

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• Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

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  Drinking, Food, Wine

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• In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

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  Truth, Inspiration, Independent

  "Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men". Book by François Arago, as translated by Baden Powell, Robert Grant, and William Fairbairn, p. 365, 1859.

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• I am inclined to think that the authority of Holy Scripture is intended to convince men of those truths which are necessary for their salvation, which, being far above man's understanding, can not be made credible by any learning, or any other means than revelation by the Holy Spirit.

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  Mean, Men, Thinking

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• I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do you think of the foremost philosophers of this University? In spite of my oft-repeated efforts and invitations, they have refused, with the obstinacy of a glutted adder, to look at the planets or the Moon or my glass [telescope].

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  Science, Thinking, Moon

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• I would beg the wise and learned fathers [of the church] to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration.

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  Wise, Father, Differences

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• With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.

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  People, Matter, Arguing

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• Some, merely to contradict what I had said, did not scruple to cast doubt upon things they had seen with their own eyes again and again.

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  Eye, Doubt, Scruples

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• Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

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  Knowledge, Science, Keys

  Attributed to Galileo Galilei in "Building Fluency Through Practice and Performance" by Timothy Rasinski and Lorraine Griffith (p. 64), 2008.

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• It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

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  Believe, Soul, Orthodox

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• But let us remember that we are dealing with infinities and indivisibles both of which transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness.

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  Understanding, Infinity, Imagine

  "On the loadstone and magnetic bodies".

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• The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics.

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  Education, Book, Character

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• What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed the power to do nothing whatever for us. Indeed, we should accept misfortune not only in thanks, but in infinite gratitude to Providence, which by such means detaches us from an excessive love for Earthly things and elevates our minds to the celestial and divine.

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  Gratitude, Mean, Hands

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• Showing a greater fondness for their own opinions than for truth, they sought to deny and disprove the new things which, if they had cared to look for themselves, their own senses would have demonstrated to them.

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  Looks, Opinion, Cold

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• Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go.

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  Book, Heaven, Going To Heaven

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• It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

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  Answers, Vex, Scripture

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• Nature...does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.

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  Mean, Doe, Can Do

  Galileo Galilei (1967). “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition”, p.117, Univ of California Press

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